The man accused of murdering a former American beauty queen who went missing almost a year ago has faced a Brisbane court. Priscilla Brooten's ex-boyfriend Mark Waden is charged with her murder and interfering with a corpse.

US citizen Priscilla Brooten, 46, has not been seen since July last year. On Friday, her ex-boyfriend Mark Sheridan Waden, 43, appeared in Brisbane Magistrate's Court charged with her murder and interfering with a corpse. Detectives charged Waden on Thursday after a week-long search of his Bracken Ridge home using an excavator and cadaver dogs. Ms

A Queensland man has been charged with the murder of US mother and ex-partner Priscilla Brooten. The 46-year-old woman was last seen in July 2018 and was not reported missing until December last year. No contact has been made with her friends or family since her disappearance. Image: News Corp Australia

Detectives charged the 43-year-old old man on Thursday after a week-long search of a Bracken Ridge home using an excavator and cadaver dogs to the search for the remains of US citizen Priscilla Brooten, 46. The Zumba dance teacher, last seen in July last year, was reportedly in a year-long relationship with the Brisbane man before she disappeared and

June 13, 2019. A 43-year-old old man arrives at the Brisbane watchhouse after being charged with murder of a missing American woman. The Brisbane ex-partner of a former American beauty queen who has been missing for almost a year will face court on Friday. (AAP Video/Aaron Bunch)

The former American beauty queen , 46, was reported missing in December, months after she was last seen at her home in Bracken Ridge, in Brisbane’s north, in July. This week forensic officers have been digging up items at the home as they searched for the missing American woman. Today Ms Brooten’s former partner Mark Sheridan Waden, 43, was taken into